The Hirota Tsumugi Blog | Shimoi Tsumugi

2025.09.05

Kimono Silk Exhibition September 2025 HIROTA TSUMUGI

We displayed our 2025 Fall/Winter kimono silk collection at our showroom on 1st and 2nd September. We constantly focus on the handcrafted high quality textile works made for daily wear kimono (the daily wear, non-formal kimono category is called 紬 "Tsumugi". The fabrics are stocked from the various local weavers in Japan, such as Okinawa, Shiga, Shinshu(Nagano), Yamagata (Yonezawa), Ibaraki, Kyoto, Ishikawa, Nigata and Kagoshima. Nearly 200 bolts are displayed in this exhibition.

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2019.11.20

Shimoi Tsumugi | New Arrivals | Latest Fabric Collection

We just received new works from Shimoi tsumugi, made by a textile artist, Shimoi Nobuhiko based in Ida city, Nagano prefecture. He used to work as a textile designer for Western clothing. Thus he could bring modern sensitivity into traditional kimono cloth making.

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2019.02.14

Shimoi Tsumugi | Striped Diamond Twill Weave

In Iida city,Nagano prefecture, a senshoku (deying & weaving) artist Shimoi Nobuhiko produces "Shimoi tsumugi". He had originally worked at the place of Western textile design, and using his experience and modern sense, his kimono textiles surpasses others in originality, a fusion of innovation and tradition.

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